VäSTERåS (SWEDEN) - A member of the Swedish nobility, Carl Johan Cronstedt, 75, is the tenth generation to have inherited the family estate and home. Built in 1656 and designed by French-born ...

A 25-year-old daughter of Swedish nobility and heir to a 300-year-old timber-and-farming business came all the way to Sonoma County to learn about tending the land. Simone Beck-Friis is 25 years old, ...

"The House of Nobility (Riddarhuset) in Stockholm" Sweden's House of Nobility (Riddarhuset) has objected to an application for a name change by a woman in Stockholm, arguing that its regulations do ...

Swedish aristocrats have lodged an official complaint after a woman from Umeå in northern Sweden applied to change her name to Ahlehjelm. The King's right to grant noble rank in Sweden was removed in ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - What France and Russia did with guillotines and firing squads, Sweden is doing with the stroke of a pen. Next month, Parliament is expected to separate the nobility from the ...

STOCKHOLM — What France and Russia did with guillotines and firing squads, Sweden is doing with the stroke of a pen. In March, Parliament is expected to separate the nobility from the affairs of state ...

The near-constant conflicts between the Swedish empire and its neighbors pushed the organization of local life in seized lands to the background, allowing Baltic German nobility in Livonia to ...